People in Economics -- Policymakers

Profiles of prominent figures in the fields of economics and finance.

While some of our profiles are of academics and intellectual leaders, others are of prominent policymakers who have made a difference by implementing economic and financial policies or shaping responses to problems.List by:Most recent, or Nobel prize winners.

A Class ActStanley Fischer, academic and central bank governor extraordinaire, by Prakash Loungani
During his tenure at the University of Chicago and later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fischer established himself as a preeminent macroeconomist before taking on the job as chief economist at the World Bank. As the IMF's deputy in the 1990s, he dealt with economic, financial, and debt crises in countries the world over.